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UNITED S'rnrns Arnn'r rrreno EPIIRAIM M. BISHOP, OF OLIVE BRIDGE, NEVYORK.

ROPE-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,799, dated August19, 1884.

Application filed 'Inne 14, 1883. (X0 model.)

Be it known that I, EPHRAIM M. Blsnor, of Olive Bridge, in the county ofUlster and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedRope-Reel, of which the following is a full, clear, and exaetdescription.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved spool onwhich coils or balls of rope or (ford of various sizes can be held veryeasily and in such a manner that the eord or rope can be nnwonnd veryreadily.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of partsforming a rope-reel, hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the aceompanying drawings, forming` a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indiea-tecorresponding parts in all the fignres.

Fignre 1 is a longitndinal View of my improved spool for eord or rope.Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-seo tionalelcvation of the same on the line x, Fig. l. l

Two cireular end pieces or disks, A, are niounted looselyon a shaft, B,and are held in place by nnts O, screwed on the shaft. The end picees ordisks are provided with aseries of radial arms, D, .having notches a,inelined inward from the periphery toward the center of the disk. Theends of the shaft B are placed in bearings in a frame, E, or the shaftis hnng in any other suitable manner, so that it can revolve freely. Ifa ball, F, of oord is to be held on the spool, one end disk or endpiece, A, is removed, the shaft B is passed through the ball, the endpiece A is replaced on the shaft and loeked in place by means of the nutC. Then rods or wires G are passed through the openings in the disks andthrough the ball, the said rods resting on the notched edges of the armsD. They are pressed against the sides of the opening in the ball and arepassed into the notches a, and thns hold the hall centered 011 thespool. Large or small balls or coils are held in the same way, andlikewise balls or coils of different widths.

If my improved spool is used, the halls of coi'd or twine can be placedin the spool, andv need not first he wonnd on a reel. The spool can bemade of wood or metal, as may bc desired.

Rope is put in the market in coils which vary in size, and nierchants,to handle the same, have to wind it on a spool of some kind, whichoperation is quite tedious. tion does away with all that work andfurnishes a spool that can he used without re- Winding` the rope, and(fan be used to rewind upon, if necessary.

I am aware that radially-adjnstable bars in ropereels are not new, and Ido not claiin the same, hroadly, as my invention.

Having thns desoribed niy invention, I clai m as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- In a rope-reel, a shaft having bearings at itsends and screw-threads and shonlders near the bearings, and nnts forsaid screw-threads, in combination with two eentrally perfoi'ated disks,having radial arms notched on their edges, and rods oi' hars to rest insaid notehes, suhstantially and for the purpose speeilied.

EPHRIM M. BISI'IOP.

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JOHN J. Dunoiis, Ennnsrr Bisnor.

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